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Originally Posted by KurayamiLeader

Okay Here's chapter #37: "A Heated Rivalry Begins: Mikko Vs Akira!"
http://www.narutofic.org/viewstory.p...361&chapter=37

Basically the preliminaries have begun and now Mikko is first up to bat, but she has to fight a nonchalant, and somewhat arrogant boy named Akira. Who will prevail and whose dreams will end there at the Kumagimo Pagoda?

I must admit, I was very enthralled by all of this chapter, right up to the end.

Spoiler for chapter 37:

Akira just...forfeited. That was quite depressing. I can understand why he might have been apprehensive about fighting a taijutsu specialist, but I expected he would come up with some sort of secondary plan. It seems like he just relied on his summon and, once that was defeated, he was out of ideas and techniques. Maybe he was just that unskilled, but I wanted there to be more. To be fair, the whole rest of the chapter was really cool. I liked how Mikko was able to effectively guard against both attacks, as well as how she dispatched the yeti (that technique is just bad ass).

It was a good chapter, I just didn't want it to end that way.